That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art--panemet Circen.

We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion and rest, form and content; without these articles of faith nobody could now endure life. But that does not prove them. Life is no argument. The conditions of life might include error.

A married philosopher is a comic character.

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.

When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.

He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth and not even as a traveller towards a final goal, for there is no such thing.